The idea of having a baby and becoming a mother always seemed like a distant prospect: something I’d definitely want to do one day, but not this day. Until one day, it suddenly didn’t feel so distant, but rather like a concrete goal. With my partner fully on board, we excitedly decided that we would start trying, knowing that it could take a few months to get pregnant.

You can probably imagine our surprise when, just a couple weeks later, we found ourselves staring at a positive pregnancy test! “Wow,” we thought, “we’re either really good at this, or super fertile!” Oh, how naïve…